At a small restaurant in Tennessee, USA.
I don’t like that they asked an LLM to graphic design the entire menu, but why in the name of robot jesus did they look at the result and say “great. Love it. Print 100 copies.”
The food pictures made me physically ill. They’re really upsetting! I told the Waitress, who agreed that the pics were awful, and the manager/owner(?) who didn’t seem to care.
There are LLM inconsistencies all over, too, like icons changing from page to page.
Ok, I’m not a fan of generative content anyway, but sometimes it’s at least saving effort. I’m confused how a restaurant, who presumably makes and serves these meals, couldn’t just take pictures of the meals instead of doing this? Surely that’d be easier, and you’d have an outcome that actually represents your product. This is just insane, and shows a total disregard for what they’re making. I’d love (hate) to see what their refrigerator and kitchen look like if they put so little care into the menu that’s facing the customer.
Definitely not defending them here, but taking appetizing menu quality photos of food is surprisingly tricky.
You need a lot of glue for that. A lot.
And to dovetail on that: while true, it is very easy to take simple photos of food and use the exact same machine that they used to make this monstrosity to improve those photos and make them appetizing and menu quality.
It really depends on where you put the machine, doesnt it?
Sure, but even bad ones would be better than these.